Malicious guest could eat your virtual rigs from the inside The Xen Project has reported a new bug, XSA-169 , that means “A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading to a Denial of Service attack.”…
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Xen Project blunder blows own embargo with premature bug report
Hackers reveal plans to make children cry Last Christmas LizardSquad played Grinch with the holiday fun of gamers by knocking out XBox Live and smacking the PlayStation Network offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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‘Phantom’ menace threatens to down Xbox Live, PSN at Xmas
DNS services appear to be targeted, switching may work Members of UK’s academic community from freshers to senior academics are facing more connection issues today as a persistent and continuous DDoS attack against the academic computer network Janet continues to stretch resources.…
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Day 2: UK research network Janet still being slapped by DDoS attack
Attackers seem to be adjusting methods in response to Tweets Publicly-funded academic computer network Janet has come under a persistent DDoS attack today, which hobbled multiple internet connections, including the Manchester to Manchester Core Router.…
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UK research network Janet under ongoing and persistent DDoS attack
Your four-year reign of terror is (temporarily) over Operations of the Dorkbot botnet have been disrupted following an operation that brought together law enforcement agencies led by the FBI, Interpol and Europol, and various infosec firms.…
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White hats, FBI and cops team up for Dorkbot botnet takedown
Skilled VXers have built 25 plugins, made 4000 variants, say crack security team Botconf One of the world’s most successful, oldest, and largest botnets is an underestimated and largely-unknown threat that has over time infected 15 million machines and made millions plundering bank accounts.…
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Ponmocup is the ’15 million’ machine botnet you’ve never heard of
When bragging of your illegal exploits, leave off your real name A UK man has been given eight and a half months in prison for launching a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2013.…
Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…
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ProtonMail ‘mitigates’ DDoS attacks, says security not breached
Maybe if you hadn’t paid the ransom to the wrong attackers it would be over Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what appears to be a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems.…
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ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack
Website unable to process online transactions Scandi finance house Swedbank has been hit by a DDoS attack, which has taken down access to online banking via its website.…
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Swedbank smacked by DDoS attack